WHETTON G.

Gershom Whetton

Private 16632

12th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)

Notts Free Press, 3rd May 1918

Gershom Whetton died on Friday 22 March 1918, Age 24, and is commemorated on the POZIERES MEMORIAL, Somme, France.

He was born on the 1st October 1893, on High Pavement. He was the son of Joseph and Eliza Whetton, who were living at 17, Dalestorth Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, at the time of his death. He was also the husband of Florence May Whetton, of 12, Leicester Street, Brighton.

He married his sweetheart, Florence May Evans on 14th February 1918 (St.Valentines day), and he died just a month after they married. His sister was Grandmother to John Whetton, Suttons Olympic miler.  

From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’

G. WHETTON. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Enlisted Mansfield (resides Brighton, Sussex). 12th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 16632 Killed in Action, France & Flanders 22^nd March 1918.

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Researched by Helen Wilson and Heather Faulkes. 
Additional information about the family, and wedding photograph, kindly provided by Paul Bradshaw.